Wind-shield cleaner.



H. -D. 'T HOMAS.. WINUSHIELD' CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23.1916.

Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

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HOWARD D. THOMAS, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

WIND-SHIELD CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, itil ltt Application filed November 23, 1916. Serial No. 1%,0671.

To all wi'aom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD D. THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Seattle, county of King, and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVind-.

Shield Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to windshield clean- .ers'and consists of a device which is designed for attachment to the wind shield of automobiles for the purpose of making it easy to clean the same of rain drops, where-' by vision of the driver will not be interfered with during rainy weather.

It has been one object of my invention to provide a device of this sort which may be readily and securely attached to and removed from a wind shield and which is of such character and construction that its presence upon the windshield will not be objectionable.

It is also intended that it shall be readily removable i n fair weather and attachable in rainy weather, so that when weather condi-- tions do not require it, it may be removed, if this be desired. I

The novel features of my invention will be hereinafter described and then particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my device in the form of construction which is now most preferred by me.

Figure '1 is a face view ofthe device as seen from the inner or rear side of the wind shield.

Pig. 3 is a rear view of the device-showin f the cleaner bars in raised position.

ig. 4 is a view of the device as seen from abov Fig. 5 is a section taken upon the line of Fig. 2.

As a pivot basis or frame by which the device may be secured to the wind shield, I employ two plates 1. these being bent to form top flanges 10. and upwardly extendin flanges 11, these plates being adapted to e brought together in such manner that the side sections 1 lie at each side of the bar 6. which forms the upper n'larginal bar of the frame of the wind shield. The upwardly extending flanges 11 are secured togcther by two screws or bolts 14, or In any The lower corners are preferably bent other suitable manner. 13 of the side sections 1 and 2, so as to curve under the frame bar 6.

Centrally, each of the side sections 1 has a depending ceive the bent end 50 of the guide rods 5.

The top' section 10 of the pivot base, or frame, has ears cut therefrom and extending upwardly toform the retaining fingers 12. Between these fingers and passing through holes formed in the central flanges 11, is the central section 22 of an operating arm 2. This operating arm has two sections or'arms 20 and 21, extending; down at each side and substantially parallel with the glass of the wind shield. end of the arm 21 is turned sharply inward, or toward the other arm, forming a tip 23, upon'which one of the cleaner bars is pivotally secured. The other arm 20, the same being the arm which is at t-he'rear side of the wind shield, or toward is first bent outwardly or away from the other arm and then back to form handle 24. Its tip 25 extends inwardly from the strip of rubber is buckled so that its central portlonpiro ects away from the metal The purpose of this twofold; one purpose is to secure a projecting portion to en gage; and wipe over the surface of the glass, without the metal frame contacting there with. The other is to form a socket for the reception of the body of the guide bars ii, whereby the position of the cleaner bars as controlled. These guide bars do not eat the entire length of the cleaner bars, bat.

car 15, which is perforated to rev 2 The lower or swinging the driver,

material part thereof, enough to give a supporting connection between the two.

In operating the device, the handle 24 is grasped 'and the cleaner bar swung rroni side to side, thus sweeping over an annnlar" segment upon the face of the wind shield. By using two cleaner bars contacting, respectively, with opposite sides of the gtass, the cleaning of both sides is assured.

The operating arn: has its two sections 20 and 21, bent to such a point that they exert an inward spring action upon the cleaner bars 3, thereby holding them gently, "yet securely, against the face of the glass. This also makes it. poseible to remove one of these cleaner bars, if desired for any purpose, by springing out the arm 20 or '21, as the case may be, with which it is attached.

hat I claim as my invention is:

In a wind shield cleaner, in combination, a pivot base provided with means for securing it upon the edge of a wind shield; a flat cleaner bar and a wiper member comprising a plate of yielding material of a width relatively slightly greater than the e'tiective width of the cleaner bar, opposite edges of -litltl cleaner ba being folded over to secure the edges ot'the plate of yielding material base, and an operating arm pivoted upon the cleaner her.

said base and upon (,olorado, this 20th day Signed at Denver, of November, 19H 7 HOWVARD D. THOMAS. 

